FOODSTUFFS AND SUPPLY

DIRECTIVE TO THE SECRETARY
1040
[16 April 1919]

Get in touch with Sereda and record his exact answer*.

Lenin.

1 The Presidium of the Samara district Executive Committee, in a telegram to Sovnarkom (and also to the Commissariat of Food and the Commissariat of Agriculture), petitioned for the fulfillment of a requisition for seed grain assigned to the Executive Committee but subsequently cancelled by the Astrakhan provincial Food Committee.

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ON FREE PROCUREMENT OF PRODUCTS*

APRIL 1919.

a.

NOTES ON L. B. KAMENEV'S MEMORANDUM.

Why not attempt to seek salvation by easing [the situation], by persuading [officials] to turn a blind eye to the transport of non-grain products along free roads in any way possible. Transport it and feed yourselves — they will bring something along. We might be late with this too. In June we will come to this.

og.

MEMORANDUM TO L. B. KAMENEV.

It will not be too late to come to rotten concessions in June. Lyubarsky insists that Centrozakup procured several millions (unnormalized), and "free procurement" killed this and yielded far less.

Let us verify these figures—*en masse*.

1) How much did Centrozakup actually procure (and transport) over 2 or 3 months?

2) How much did the "free" transporter bring in for *February–March*?

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NOTE ON THE TELEGRAM OF THE COOPERATIVE
UNIONS OF THE NORTHERN REGION.

[2 May 1919]

Moscow.

To the Chairman
of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and Chairman of Sovnarkom, copy to Vysovsoverkhoz, the Commissariat of Food, Vsekoopsouz, Centrosoyuz.

The representatives of the cooperative unions of the Northern region, assembled at the conference, having heard informational reports on the situation